With the upcoming court ordered mediation between former EXO member Kris (Wu Yi Fan) and SM Entertainment over his contract cancellation lawsuit, it’s no surprise that more “scandals” would emerge leading up to the mediation date scheduled on July 8th. This past weekend the Korean media exclusively reported, after being tipped off by an anonymous Chinese entertainment official, that Kris was dating his 16-year older director Xu Jing Lei who cast him as the lead in her new movie Somewhere Only We Know. The tipster claimed that forty year old Xu Jing Lei was enamored of Kris after seeing him debut and pursued him, and he was unable to resist her mature woman allures and ended up falling for her when she encouraged and supported his leaving EXO after unhappiness with being under SM.

The tipster even claimed that the relationship was a well known secret within the Chinese entertainment circles. Xu Jing Lei is in Prague filming and when asked about this rumor, she was so amused she asked if this came from the fertile mind of the international netizens and didn’t even want to respond to something so moronic and absurd. Xu Jing Lei has been rather openly dating her Go Lala Go! costar the Taiwanese-American singer-actor Stanley Huang for the last five years, and last month the C-media even speculated the couple was actually married already after Xu Jing Lei’s recent immigration form was leaked where she marked off “married”. Her movie Somewhere Only We Know is purported to commemorate her romance with Stanley as a love letter of sorts. Sometimes “leaks” have the whiff of possibility but this one smells so badly like SM trying to smear Kris as some sleazy dude who glommed onto a powerful older lover who backed his departure from EXO. Continue reading →